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Juárez captain accused in cartel slaying
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Posted: 03/13/2009 12:00:00 AM MDT

A Juárez police captain and two officers were arrested and accused of taking part in a slaying on orders of the Juárez drug cartel, federal officials said Thursday.

Capt. Antonio de Jesus Arzabala Vega and Officers Luis Raul Morales Martinez and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Deciga were arrested Wednesday and taken to Mexico City.

A fourth man, Jorge Luis Murillo Marquez, was also arrested.

Federal police said Arzabala admitted to taking part in kidnappings and offering protection to La Linea, as the Juárez drug cartel is known.

Arzabala allegedly ordered the two officers to "levantar," or pick up, a 22-year-old man whose name was not released.

The man was allegedly taken by the officers in their patrol car and handed over to members of La Linea in the parking lot of the Plaza de las Americas shopping center in the ProNaF tourist zone, federal officials said. The kidnapped man was killed.

Arzabala allegedly admitted that a member of La Linea identified only as "Primo (cousin), Pancho or Comandante" would call him on a cell phone and order whom the cartel wanted kidnapped.

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com;546-6102.